Strong: Marie Garreau credits the couple's faith with getting them through the health battle

That leads to a widespread
inflammation which causes tingly numbing sensation in the arms and legs,
causing paralysis and inability to breathe, and in some extreme cases,
death.

Warned of the potential for her
husband's detah, Mr Garreau's wife, Marie, kept a constant vigil by his
bedside - and never doubted he would recover.

She told Fox: 'As the disease was
progressing and getting worse and worse and the idea of death... The
possibility of this becoming terminal... I didn't become freaked out.'

Slowly her husband has regained strength.

Although he has not fully recovered
his motor skills, faith in God, she said, has kept Mr Garreau from
succumbing to the syndrome.

Now, the couple is expecting twins - two younger brothers for their son, Tobias.

'You know that God is good and when
something like this happens it's like wow,' she told Fox, crediting the
health struggle with strengthening their faith - so much so that Mr
Garreau now teaches at a local bible college.